HTML e-mails

[Vitaliy Margolen]

I'm sure that everyone of us really enjoys seeing influx of these
wonderful HTML messages.

People please don't send HTML e-mails to the mailing lists. Tey are a pain
to read. And if some one about to say that's not their fault because they
use gmail - then DON'T use gmail for this mailing list. Or configure it
so it does not send HTML messages.

Vitaliy

[Molle Bestefich]

Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> People please don't send HTML e-mails to the mailing lists.

All mailers send a text/plain MIME alternative also.

So we could just have the wine mail servers strip the HTML
alternative, et voila?

[Vitaliy Margolen]

Monday, April 24, 2006, 7:49:37 PM, Molle Bestefich wrote:
> Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> > People please don't send HTML e-mails to the mailing lists.
> All mailers send a text/plain MIME alternative also.
> So we could just have the wine mail servers strip the HTML
> alternative, et voila?

Or senders can just flip the format to plain text and bingo!

Vitaliy

[Segin]

Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> I'm sure that everyone of us really enjoys seeing influx of these
> wonderful HTML messages.
>
> People please don't send HTML e-mails to the mailing lists. Tey are a pain
> to read. And if some one about to say that's not their fault because they
> use gmail - then DON'T use gmail for this mailing list. Or configure it
> so it does not send HTML messages.
>
> Vitaliy

Err, somebody had changed my mailer's settings behind my back. Sorry 
bout that

And next time, when you have a problem with me, can you please send me a 
message off the list, instead of sending a generic message on the list? 
I don't know anyone else that had HTML posts.

[Vitaliy Margolen]

Monday, April 24, 2006, 8:32:14 PM, Segin wrote:
> Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> > I'm sure that everyone of us really enjoys seeing influx of these
> > wonderful HTML messages.
> >
> > People please don't send HTML e-mails to the mailing lists. Tey are a pain
> > to read. And if some one about to say that's not their fault because they
> > use gmail - then DON'T use gmail for this mailing list. Or configure it
> > so it does not send HTML messages.
> >
> > Vitaliy
>
> Err, somebody had changed my mailer's settings behind my back. Sorry 
> bout that
> And next time, when you have a problem with me, can you please send me a
> message off the list, instead of sending a generic message on the list?
> I don't know anyone else that had HTML posts.

There are number of people here who use gmail or other services that start
sending HTML all at the same time. I dunno if that's because Google
changed something?

So it seemed to me that the problem not with one single offender <g> but
with multiple people. And all that started with the most active topic...

Vitaliy

[KGJ]

Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> Monday, April 24, 2006, 8:32:14 PM, Segin wrote:
> > Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> > > I'm sure that everyone of us really enjoys seeing influx of these
> > > wonderful HTML messages.
> > >
> > > People please don't send HTML e-mails to the mailing lists. Tey are a pain
> > > to read. And if some one about to say that's not their fault because they
> > > use gmail - then DON'T use gmail for this mailing list. Or configure it
> > > so it does not send HTML messages.
> > >
> > > Vitaliy
> >
> > Err, somebody had changed my mailer's settings behind my back. Sorry 
> > bout that
> > And next time, when you have a problem with me, can you please send me a
> > message off the list, instead of sending a generic message on the list?
> > I don't know anyone else that had HTML posts.
>
> There are number of people here who use gmail or other services that start
> sending HTML all at the same time. I dunno if that's because Google
> changed something?
>
> So it seemed to me that the problem not with one single offender <g> but
> with multiple people. And all that started with the most active topic...
>
> Vitaliy

I'm very sorry about that, I just noticed that I sometimes sent HTML
mails, too. My Thunderbird was configured to auto-detect which did the
right thing as long as I answered to plain text only mails. Perhaps it
would be a good idea to write somewhere that the users should configure
there clients to send text only mails to the list? I knew it but I think
if it's worth to open a thread for that topic it might be worth to write
a little (big) notice on this site: http://winehq.org/site/forums (or
perhaps I'm just blind?)

I apologize again,

KGJ

[Tom Spear (Dustin Booker, Dustin Navea)]

KGJ wrote:
> Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> > Monday, April 24, 2006, 8:32:14 PM, Segin wrote:
> > > Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
> > > > I'm sure that everyone of us really enjoys seeing influx of these
> > > > wonderful HTML messages.
> > > >
> > > > People please don't send HTML e-mails to the mailing lists. Tey are a pain
> > > > to read. And if some one about to say that's not their fault because they
> > > > use gmail - then DON'T use gmail for this mailing list. Or configure it
> > > > so it does not send HTML messages.
> > > >
> > > > Vitaliy
> > >
> > > Err, somebody had changed my mailer's settings behind my back. Sorry 
> > > bout that
> > > And next time, when you have a problem with me, can you please send me a
> > > message off the list, instead of sending a generic message on the list?
> > > I don't know anyone else that had HTML posts.
> >
> > There are number of people here who use gmail or other services that start
> > sending HTML all at the same time. I dunno if that's because Google
> > changed something?
> >
> > So it seemed to me that the problem not with one single offender <g> but
> > with multiple people. And all that started with the most active topic...
> >
> > Vitaliy
>
> I'm very sorry about that, I just noticed that I sometimes sent HTML
> mails, too. My Thunderbird was configured to auto-detect which did the
> right thing as long as I answered to plain text only mails. Perhaps it
> would be a good idea to write somewhere that the users should configure
> there clients to send text only mails to the list? I knew it but I think
> if it's worth to open a thread for that topic it might be worth to write
> a little (big) notice on this site: http://winehq.org/site/forums (or
> perhaps I'm just blind?)
>
> I apologize again,
>
> KGJ

This is just another argument FOR a forum... :-D If you dont want html 
in a category, you can turn it off...

[Kuba Ober]

> This is just another argument FOR a forum... :-D If you dont want html
> in a category, you can turn it off...

I think the simplest solution still is for the mailing list software to send 
out only the plaintext version of the message, if in fact all HTML mailers 
include plaintext as well.

Cheers, Kuba Ober